Details
1-day course
CPD Credit: 6.5 hours, C1
Course Aim
This course introduces the key subject areas relating to sustainability
including climate change, energy efficiency, resource use, circularity, nature
& biodiversity, health & well-being, and climate adaptation.
Course Overview
Climate change and biodiversity loss are two of the key challenges of this century. In order to find sustainable solutions for constructing our built environment, building professionals need to understand the core concepts. This course introduces the key subject areas relating to sustainability including climate change, energy efficiency, resource use, circularity, nature & biodiversity, health & well-being, and climate adaptation.
Course Objectives
This course aims to link engineers’ experiences to the climate challenges that society is confronting and to explore the sustainable solutions available to address them. By the end of the course, learners will understand key concepts about sustainability in the built environment in relation to planetary boundaries and resources. They will have developed a sustainability lens in which to view their work and identify key actions to enable them to become leaders in the industry to address these challenges.
Course Programme
- Introduction to Sustainability and Climate Change.
- Sustainability in the Built Environment.
- Tools for Measuring Sustainability.
Learning Outcomes/Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, delegates should be able to:
- Understand key concepts about the global sustainability challenge.
- Know how the built environment both contributes too and is affected by the global sustainability challenge.
- Identify the key concepts relating to sustainability in the built environment including climate change, energy efficiency, resource use, circularity, nature & biodiversity, health & well-being, and climate adaptation.
- Understand some of the key EU and National policy actions affecting the built environment including the Green Deal, Renovation wave, EPBD, Taxonomy regulations and the Government climate action plan.
- Demonstrate an understanding of whole life carbon and differentiate between operational and embodied carbon emissions and the role the circular economy plays in reducing these.
- Understand some of the key tools that can be used to assess and report on sustainability in the built environment including the EU Level(s) framework and voluntary certification tools.
Who Should Attend?
Construction professionals including engineers, architects, and surveyors.
Trainer's Profile
Pat Barry
CEO of IGBC. Pat Barry is Chief Executive Officer of the Irish Green Building Council which he co-founded in 2010. He is an Architect with over 20 years of experience in Ireland, Europe and South America, a Masters in Environmental design of buildings from University of Cardiff and is a qualified Passive House and DGNB consultant.
Patrick O’Reilly
Technical Lead on Indoor Air Quality, Daylight and Net zero buildings. Patrick joined the IGBC in 2021 as a Technical Officer, providing technical support across a number of IGBC projects, particularly the WGBC #BuildingLife campaign. Patrick is a chartered engineer with international consultancy experience in designing low energy buildings as part of the specialised Building Physics/Sustainability teams at CUNDALL (Hong Kong & London) and ETHOS Engineering (Dublin). Patrick is a LEED Accredited Professional, BD+C.
Stephen Barrett
Lead on IEQ and Operational Energy. Stephen joined IGBC in 2020 to work on Whole Life Carbon projects. He is working on Level(s), the EU initiative to promote a common language around the environmental performance of buildings, and the WGBC #BuildingLife campaign set up to drive change in public policy and private sector awareness of WLC. He has an MSc. in Sustainability & Adaptation in the Built Environment – his thesis focused on Life Cycle Analysis methodology and application and WLC assessment at the building level. His background is in data management, analysis, and presentation.
Engineers Ireland supports the Sustainable Development Goals. This event contributes to Engineers Ireland's Sustainability Framework.
Please contact the Team for further information on scheduled course dates and In-Company options. You can reach us by phone: 01 665 1305 or email cpdtraining@engineersireland.ie